When they do a decent job they can get access you can't. I'd at least take a swipe at it, since this got my hackles up and seems like the kind of story they could run.
The human bod isn't one of the cleanest things anyway, but what people have done to keyboards would make Pigpen cringe.
Back in the early days when as a programmer/analyst I still got to work on things (now everyone hires 'techs') I was called to a keyboard on an ADDS VP60 terminal which had stopped working. This wasn't too uncommon since keyboards frequently became the home of:
Staples (pulled from pages)
Paperclips
Dust, Hair, Fingernail bits, etc., though usually not conductive
Yecch (you only know what this is if you've taken apart keyboards, others, you don't want to know, i.e. magic nose goblins)
Food spillage
I examined the offending keyboard and noticed some of the caps were wet. When asked about the presence of coffee, Coke, or any other beverage, the user said "no, haven't had anything like that anywhere around it", had anyone else sat there recently, "no, they'd been sitting there for over an hour when it froze up." To everyone's astonishment I then picked up the board by its cord and watched it drip something on the desk approximating: Coffee, heavy on cream with sugar (probably 3 lumps judging by the size of the user) . Those were the days when we could take a keyboard entirely apart and wash it in the bathroom sink, towel dry and reassemble good as new. Sadly, even being trapped in one's own lies doesn't seem to discourage users from keeping a full cuppa near the electrical bits.
Quick question: How much damage to a PC would a good soaking with coffee do? Fry anything?
With an early (like at 9yrs old) exposure to electronics I was lost trying to figure out how Iron Man "charged up" power transistors. I would have suggested they change that to capacitors or something, but once you start applying logic to comic book physics it's time to find a different comic book where the illusion isn't so easily shattered. Probably this has much to do with why I dumped comics and moved straight over to MAD. Hasn't affected me adversely at all %)
12 1.5" disks of 90% AG, 10% Cu, work very effectively, considering the insulative nature of a mattress. They stack out of the way easier than contending with a pile of change, which I tried first. BTW, cents are now Zn, you have to get them from before 1982 (excepting 1943) to get 90-95% Cu. (1943 were steel)
My Sony Vaio is a couple years old, no fans, lots of heat, enough to burn my legs if I'm wearing shorts. I talked with someone at a CES who was demoing some lap props to hold up laptops, suggesting they consider a model with an aluminum plate or such to wick away heat.
Lately I've found if I want to prop it on the corner of my bed to place a few silver dollars under it, which works pretty well as they elevate it, give some ventilation and also wick away heat rather effectively, but perhaps not for everyone.:) Old cruddy silver dollars can be found for ~$7 each at coin shows and about a dozen works well.
Soon? 2003 isn't soon (unless you've been waiting for the SledgeHammer, then only one year may seem soon-ish) They were just filming parts of Hulk in San Fran last week. I was taken aback a bit by the teaser at the theater last Saturday (May 4th), but even that probably took a day or less to film. And as is the case in teasers, there's no guarantee what you see in the teaser will be in the final can.
Hulk, too, looks like an ordinary schmuck in a slightly rundown suburban neighborhood setting. Gives it some grit. The only criticism I have (aside from the truly bad computer animation in Spider-man) was how ill-fitting it seems to set these heroes in giant cities. I think even Superman would be sorely taxed trying to run down crime in a modern metropolis like New York or Los Angeles. A super hero and a villain seem to fit better in a smaller city.
I wouldn't, If anything I think Spider-Man gave a taste of what we the-line-standing-masses will experience when AOTC comes out. Star Wars has a built in audience, cultivated over decades, though slightly burned by Jar Jar, most likely very forgiving. Word that this Episode will set all things right has got around and I'll probably see 3 screens of it at the local 9-plex and still all shows sold out for the first few days (particularly because they've been selling advance tickets!)
Spider-man's springboard was an comic which has it's glory days in the past (comic sales are lower than decades past, probably due to computers, video games, etc.) and an incredibly inane and plodding newspaper strip. That it's done so well most likely speaks volumes (largely ignored in Hollywood) at the value of producing family entertainment. I'm old enough to remember when 'R' rated films only came through town once in a while, now they're usually 50% of what's showing, if not more. Even PG-13 stuff can be pretty awful, so when the old web slinger hit the screens it was a safe bet that kids would be there, most of the viewers in the lines I saw were of the ankle-biter variety. Lasting power, of course remains to be seen.
Those with the low-qual divx may see it frist, but nothing beats the "big screen":)
This has often been the major factor in why I don't watch movies much at home. So many have been stunning on the big screen (e.g. Anna and the King, CTHD, SW:EPI, Oh Brother Where Art Thou) that $5 for a matinee ticket is a small price to pay for the view. Maybe after I fork over $5K for a Sony WEGA screen or such and have a decent total THX sound system at hom (assuming I live in a place where I could actually crank it up to theater levels) I'd feel differently (I've snuck^H^H^H^H^Hbeen to a couple CES and know what I want 8), but until I have all that, $5 is a pretty fair trade to sit in someone else's chair, watch someone elses big screen and hear sound over someone else's THX system and not have to clean up all the beer^H^H^H^H^pop and popcorn detritus afterwards.
Watching a panavision movie on anything less than a 40" monitor has got to be utterly sad, you're really not seeing the same thing theater-goers are.
Speaking of crap, one film I always wanted to see remade in the books original setting was War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells. Seems our ol' buddy Tom Cruise is going to ruin that, too. Maybe he'll star, buddy Co$'er as one of the martians. Won't that be un-cool.
I'm wondering why they haven't resorted to putting some coding, some object or image that is digitally dubbed into a few frames in an inconspicuious position to identify which of the films this was so they could simply deny that party furture access to preview or any other films. The power to police this doesn't require the DMCA or courts, but some very minor effort on the part of producers/distributors. In case anyone wasn't aware, film distribution is a cartel; films which they don't like, don't get distributed or they apply various pressures and threats to get their desired results.
Other news, more digital theaters, unfortunately shy on details, but there's a listing of some on DLP.
While the states have had a misstep or two, I see the wisdom in not prolonging the trial. Time is currently on Microsoft's side and the testimony and intent to demonstrate modular Windows, was probably sufficient. Actually going ahead with the demo c^Hwould give Microsoft a leg up in appeal of any unfavorable ruling.
I think the next big invention in internet and computing is a fool proof way to detect and stop spam.
You may be on to something there.
Forward into the future 5 years...
In Today's News, National Spam Destructor Corporation has tendered an offer of 20 billion in stock to buy out the remainder of Hewlett Packard (HPQ); Spamtek insiders have revealed shreading of documents, while Spamtek replacement legal counsel Bernard Fritzman has released a memo, detailing how email routers were arranged to send spam from California into Nevada and back, allowing the scandal rocked corporate giant to increase the cost of filtering spam over the California intra-state price caps, congressional hearings will resume next week; Chinese officials claim their missile attack and attempted invasion of Taiwan was warranted by spam barrages which originated from a Taipei elementary school open relay and had suitably paralyzed mainland communications networks, justifying military action; NASA, Inc's CEO Jeb Bush states that the Hubble Space Telescope is working again after it had been hijacked by a worm in company email which redirected it to Betty Lou Frimple's unshaded bedroom window and her interlude with her significan other was broadcast over the internet via an AOL/TW/Pr0ncomm web page...
Of course, the UK upholds, or at the very least throws more effort at, ratings systems which seem to slip considerably in the US. Hence it becomes an issue (usually campaign year) to get the TV and Film industries to abide by tougher (i.e. the way they once actually were) ratings.
Head butting, geez, how's Pro-Wrestling rated in the UK?
On another note, Boeing Digital Cinema appears to be adding more digital screens to US theater, see article (along with extremely annoying Yahoo ads) here. Nice to see these are advancing, probably with AOTC as the motivation.
Doesn't hold water... The bubble burst has shown that. Lucent had a great brand and name, but when it came to selling product they found markets eroding fast from foreign competition.
HP faces the same dilemma. I've worked on DEC and Pr1me systems, both of which their companies are only a memory. Equipment is increasingly made of cheap, flimsy materials designed to last a year or two, manufacturing moving to Asia where people work hard for little pay (mostly because a dollar goes a longer way there, but don't encourage them, quality you still have to look hard for and still pay a premium for when you find it.) Even today I read Intel is going to be making Pentium 4's in
Shanghai.
In short, HP's in a consolidating market where steel framed printers with metal bearings and fibre reinforced belts aren't going to sell as well as plastic boxes. If the competition doesn't work the HP Way and they're eating your lunch, somethings got to change.
Nice to see David feels some sympathy, but I've felt for a while that his 'work against rather than with' attitude has done plenty of harm in itself. Seems the time for him to take an active interest in HP was years ago. He missed it and has handled the whole merger issue badly. Ironic for someone with an interest in theatre to be so poor in the PR sense.
Remember, the key to the real industrial revolution was electric light. Combine extra hours of productivity with education and you're on your way to becoming an economic power (even a small one), for good and for bad.
I wonder what quality of life they're really missing out on before making some blanket statement about replacing candles/oil lamps with LED's. Granted, they should suffer fewer fires without open flame.
I get emails (since I bought a Sony laptop a couple years ago) from Sony now and then. Sony Style is a nice site to see what they have, but, oof, not the best prices.
Some may differ on my view, but of the two Motorola cell phones I've had, they're tough little phones, well engineered and manufactured. I'd like the idea of getting a PDA which would hold up well for a few years, after all shelling out $300+ for a PDA the least they could do is make it tough. My Sony laptop has taught me a valuable lesson if style over reliability, it's the last Sony laptop I'll ever buy. Two years old and the keyboard, mouse pad and battery are shot, and I think the modem is going next. Nice compact little unit, but not rugged.
Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms - oh, damn!
Hmm.. surprise, the table could be a Transformer, spread fear, work with ruthless efficiency and be catholic, would that work?
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Back in the early days when as a programmer/analyst I still got to work on things (now everyone hires 'techs') I was called to a keyboard on an ADDS VP60 terminal which had stopped working. This wasn't too uncommon since keyboards frequently became the home of:
Staples (pulled from pages)
Paperclips
Dust, Hair, Fingernail bits, etc., though usually not conductive
Yecch (you only know what this is if you've taken apart keyboards, others, you don't want to know, i.e. magic nose goblins)
Food spillage
I examined the offending keyboard and noticed some of the caps were wet. When asked about the presence of coffee, Coke, or any other beverage, the user said "no, haven't had anything like that anywhere around it", had anyone else sat there recently, "no, they'd been sitting there for over an hour when it froze up." To everyone's astonishment I then picked up the board by its cord and watched it drip something on the desk approximating: Coffee, heavy on cream with sugar (probably 3 lumps judging by the size of the user) . Those were the days when we could take a keyboard entirely apart and wash it in the bathroom sink, towel dry and reassemble good as new. Sadly, even being trapped in one's own lies doesn't seem to discourage users from keeping a full cuppa near the electrical bits.
Quick question: How much damage to a PC would a good soaking with coffee do? Fry anything?
The space-bar and ENTER key agree with you, the Caps Lock is taking offense and the rest of the keys don't see your point.
I dunno, I rather like They Might Be Giants and their's is certainly a monotone-nasal sound.
With an early (like at 9yrs old) exposure to electronics I was lost trying to figure out how Iron Man "charged up" power transistors. I would have suggested they change that to capacitors or something, but once you start applying logic to comic book physics it's time to find a different comic book where the illusion isn't so easily shattered. Probably this has much to do with why I dumped comics and moved straight over to MAD. Hasn't affected me adversely at all %)
12 1.5" disks of 90% AG, 10% Cu, work very effectively, considering the insulative nature of a mattress. They stack out of the way easier than contending with a pile of change, which I tried first. BTW, cents are now Zn, you have to get them from before 1982 (excepting 1943) to get 90-95% Cu. (1943 were steel)
Cool (no pun intended) idea, very similar to what I saw at the CES, but definetly a better idea.
Lately I've found if I want to prop it on the corner of my bed to place a few silver dollars under it, which works pretty well as they elevate it, give some ventilation and also wick away heat rather effectively, but perhaps not for everyone. :) Old cruddy silver dollars can be found for ~$7 each at coin shows and about a dozen works well.
Hulk, too, looks like an ordinary schmuck in a slightly rundown suburban neighborhood setting. Gives it some grit. The only criticism I have (aside from the truly bad computer animation in Spider-man) was how ill-fitting it seems to set these heroes in giant cities. I think even Superman would be sorely taxed trying to run down crime in a modern metropolis like New York or Los Angeles. A super hero and a villain seem to fit better in a smaller city.
Spider-man's springboard was an comic which has it's glory days in the past (comic sales are lower than decades past, probably due to computers, video games, etc.) and an incredibly inane and plodding newspaper strip. That it's done so well most likely speaks volumes (largely ignored in Hollywood) at the value of producing family entertainment. I'm old enough to remember when 'R' rated films only came through town once in a while, now they're usually 50% of what's showing, if not more. Even PG-13 stuff can be pretty awful, so when the old web slinger hit the screens it was a safe bet that kids would be there, most of the viewers in the lines I saw were of the ankle-biter variety. Lasting power, of course remains to be seen.
This has often been the major factor in why I don't watch movies much at home. So many have been stunning on the big screen (e.g. Anna and the King, CTHD, SW:EPI, Oh Brother Where Art Thou) that $5 for a matinee ticket is a small price to pay for the view. Maybe after I fork over $5K for a Sony WEGA screen or such and have a decent total THX sound system at hom (assuming I live in a place where I could actually crank it up to theater levels) I'd feel differently (I've snuck^H^H^H^H^Hbeen to a couple CES and know what I want 8), but until I have all that, $5 is a pretty fair trade to sit in someone else's chair, watch someone elses big screen and hear sound over someone else's THX system and not have to clean up all the beer^H^H^H^H^pop and popcorn detritus afterwards.
Watching a panavision movie on anything less than a 40" monitor has got to be utterly sad, you're really not seeing the same thing theater-goers are.
Speaking of crap, one film I always wanted to see remade in the books original setting was War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells. Seems our ol' buddy Tom Cruise is going to ruin that, too. Maybe he'll star, buddy Co$'er as one of the martians. Won't that be un-cool.
Other news, more digital theaters, unfortunately shy on details, but there's a listing of some on DLP.
Just until the next version, (what, Longhorn?) to come out? That'd kick the legs right out from under the whole wossname, eh?
While the states have had a misstep or two, I see the wisdom in not prolonging the trial. Time is currently on Microsoft's side and the testimony and intent to demonstrate modular Windows, was probably sufficient. Actually going ahead with the demo c^Hwould give Microsoft a leg up in appeal of any unfavorable ruling.
In the Microsoft Dictionary we find: Prepare (v) Rig.
You may be on to something there.
Forward into the future 5 years...
In Today's News, National Spam Destructor Corporation has tendered an offer of 20 billion in stock to buy out the remainder of Hewlett Packard (HPQ); Spamtek insiders have revealed shreading of documents, while Spamtek replacement legal counsel Bernard Fritzman has released a memo, detailing how email routers were arranged to send spam from California into Nevada and back, allowing the scandal rocked corporate giant to increase the cost of filtering spam over the California intra-state price caps, congressional hearings will resume next week; Chinese officials claim their missile attack and attempted invasion of Taiwan was warranted by spam barrages which originated from a Taipei elementary school open relay and had suitably paralyzed mainland communications networks, justifying military action; NASA, Inc's CEO Jeb Bush states that the Hubble Space Telescope is working again after it had been hijacked by a worm in company email which redirected it to Betty Lou Frimple's unshaded bedroom window and her interlude with her significan other was broadcast over the internet via an AOL/TW/Pr0ncomm web page...
Head butting, geez, how's Pro-Wrestling rated in the UK?
On another note, Boeing Digital Cinema appears to be adding more digital screens to US theater, see article (along with extremely annoying Yahoo ads) here. Nice to see these are advancing, probably with AOTC as the motivation.
Walter's handling of things has been basically scorched earth.
HP faces the same dilemma. I've worked on DEC and Pr1me systems, both of which their companies are only a memory. Equipment is increasingly made of cheap, flimsy materials designed to last a year or two, manufacturing moving to Asia where people work hard for little pay (mostly because a dollar goes a longer way there, but don't encourage them, quality you still have to look hard for and still pay a premium for when you find it.) Even today I read Intel is going to be making Pentium 4's in Shanghai.
In short, HP's in a consolidating market where steel framed printers with metal bearings and fibre reinforced belts aren't going to sell as well as plastic boxes. If the competition doesn't work the HP Way and they're eating your lunch, somethings got to change.
Nice to see David feels some sympathy, but I've felt for a while that his 'work against rather than with' attitude has done plenty of harm in itself. Seems the time for him to take an active interest in HP was years ago. He missed it and has handled the whole merger issue badly. Ironic for someone with an interest in theatre to be so poor in the PR sense.
I wonder what quality of life they're really missing out on before making some blanket statement about replacing candles/oil lamps with LED's. Granted, they should suffer fewer fires without open flame.
I get emails (since I bought a Sony laptop a couple years ago) from Sony now and then. Sony Style is a nice site to see what they have, but, oof, not the best prices.
Some may differ on my view, but of the two Motorola cell phones I've had, they're tough little phones, well engineered and manufactured. I'd like the idea of getting a PDA which would hold up well for a few years, after all shelling out $300+ for a PDA the least they could do is make it tough. My Sony laptop has taught me a valuable lesson if style over reliability, it's the last Sony laptop I'll ever buy. Two years old and the keyboard, mouse pad and battery are shot, and I think the modem is going next. Nice compact little unit, but not rugged.
Hmm.. surprise, the table could be a Transformer, spread fear, work with ruthless efficiency and be catholic, would that work?